FLASHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9386, 12 March 1898, Page 2

FLASHES.

Meeting Waugauui Regatta Association this evening. ,> • 'g< Entries for. Wanganui Regatta close* tonight at 8 oVlock. The Wellington city loan of £15,000 was carried yesterday by 1212 to 465. Twelve hundred and eighty-three deaths have occurred from the plague at Bombay. * * A bacon-curing company is in course 'of formation at Stratford. President Faurs is arranging an interview with tlie Qd'een ddrkig heif journey" , to Nioei ... . . Obituary - - Pastor George Bfnller, of Bristol:, Tlie deceased visited the colonies a few years ago: , The Canadian Paoiflo Railway Company has reduced the fart across tlie Continent to£& V ■ -"..r-f"', -„Sj.-" -, .. Between 80 and 90 constables' are employed in New Zealand in small country districts as clerks of the court. ' ■ .. The Feilding Star says that the whole of the oattle on the Motoa district, some 1600 of all ages, have been dehorned. The Palmerston North Gas Company has declared a dividend of 6 per cent, and carried forward £452. ■ ■ " Adelaide bread is complained of as being poor in quality. 'Bakers and millers are abusing each other. < ' - •■ , The prices oharged to hear Madame Albani sing in the Sydney Town Hall were • 2s 6d, 5s and 7s 6d, . . -,',-.' Whilst fishing in the river at Blenheim last week, Mr Claude Ball caught a trout that weighed nearly 301 b. - ■ ■ Another . syndicate to prospeot the Patua ranges for gold is likely to be formed at New Plymouth. A plague of caterpillars at Grafton (N.S.W.) is destroying the lucerne and other green crops/. , The Wesleyan Church of New South Wales reports a membership of 10,435, an actual decrease of 51 on the year. A sum of £200, the property of the Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works, has been stolen from a sealed cashbox. Miss Hobden has resigned her appointment as organist of All Saints' Churoh, Nelson, and Master Harold Light has been chosen in her stead. ■ , An Armenian priest has been collecting subscriptions in New Plymouth for bit countrymen who suffered at the bands of the Turks and Kurds. On tho trip across from Sydney the pas* sengers on the Waikare played a orioket match, Australia v New Zealand; tho former winning. John and Robert Tod were arrested at Waikopiro (Hawke's Bay) on )Vodnesday on a charge of stealing a sheep, the property of a Maori neighbour. Owing to the very dry season the honey ; harvest to he gathered in the Wairarapa , ! this year will be a great falling off in quan- >' tifcy ou that gathered in previous years.' On several properties, round 1 Hastings there has of late been a strange mortality among sheep. The animals are taken traddenly ill and die almost at once. . , The Christohuroh Hospital Board avoided that in the tenders for milk 'for the ensuing year alternative •tenders should bo called for pasteurised milk and ordinarymilk. The seoretary of the Albert Digtriot Independent Order of Reobabites, South Australia, has disappeared. .. A special audit of his acoounts shows a deficiency of £2998. „ .. ,